Information for education settings and professionals

Download our post-16 locality info (PDF 469.7KB) to find out who the allocated senior SEN officer, educational psychologist, early years teacher and early years practitioner is for the education setting the child or young person attends.

SEND Gateway (link opens in new window) is an online portal offering education professionals free, easy access to high quality information, resources and training for meeting the needs of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

Nasen: Focus on SEND Training (link opens in new window) – Focus on SEND training is a free course aiming to help teachers and educational practitioners working across the 0 – 25 years age range to develop high quality practice in order to better meet the needs of their learners with SEND

mental health toolkit (PDF 3.9MB) – promotes emotional health, wellbeing and resilience using a whole school and college approach. The aim of this toolkit is to enable Central Bedfordshire schools/colleges to adopt a holistic approach to promoting emotional wellbeing for its pupils/ students and staff, which aligns with our Children and Young People’s Plan (2018-2021), available on the First Hand (link opens in new window) website